Make sure you check out the upgrade hints before you start! http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9069

I have upgraded my a8n-vm csm motherboard to R5B7 and there are still a couple of gotchas.

1. You need a custom kernel to fix the dsdt issues. I just modified the supplied 2.6.15 kernel turning on DSDT support and adding the hex file. Then the machine is a lot more stable, and the power management stuff works.

2. Newer nvidia video driver is needed.

3. Newer version of Alsa is needed. Im running 1.0.11rc2 with the patch to remove the audio hum on analog audio.

You no longer need the nvidia ethernet driver as the included forcedeth driver works just fine.

Steve

I'm loading the new KnoppMyth R5B7 onto a blank hard drive. I would expect all these backup steps to be irrelavent for my case. Correct?

What about loading R5B7 and then using app-get update to pull new nvidia drivers automatically? Does that work?

Eric

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner

You can just modify the install-nv-? script to install the latest version, there are a few examples on the forums. Failing that just wget them

You don't even need to modify the script. The version is actually a commnand line parameter now.

Is that using wget or apt-get?

Could you type out the exact commands to update the needed drivers for this Asus A8N-VM CSM? That would be great.

Eric

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner

You really should have been able to find that yourself...

Thanks for the pointers. This is my first Linux project. I've come here after 15 years in the Windows world. This command line stuff is not used much there.

Eric

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner

Actually I meant that it's right in Cecil's installation instructions under "Post Install". c.f. - http://www.mysettopbox.tv/doc.html#autoinstall

OK, so it's a slightly different form there, but the command completion he tells you to use would do the right thing, and the first time you tried it it would have told you more about how to run it.

All sounds good. What's the sound quality like on these boards?

I followed the insturctions in an earlier post and modified the script that pulls down the nvidia driver. I'm up with video now.

PROBLEM:
KnoppMyth will not shut down the computer if you tell it to shut down. The progress bar goes to 100% but it never turns off the machine. Is this a known problem - perhaps a driver problem I need to address?

Also:
In the process of setting up Mythtv after I got the nvidia drivers going, I accidently hit return and sent some blank entries for some of the IP address configuration lines as well as my zip code.

After every pc boot, I have to manually enter my chosen static IP on a command line using "ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0" and then "route add default gw 192.168.0.1"
THEN I have Net access and can do things. Then on the next boot, I'm off the Net again.

I think I need to re-run the Mythtv Network setup phase to fix it. Any idea how or what I type?

Eric

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner

netcardconfig is the command

Excellent. That worked nicely.

I've got the nvidia drivers updated and am now trying to fix the sound and the ACPI auto shutdown problems.

I was following the steps for the ACPI at http://quaggaspace.org/a8nvm/

I followed the steps listed there, but nothing seems to have changed. Did the author get lazy and leave steps out? Anyone know?

Eric

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner

Did you compile and install the kernel after following the steps?

If you did, what bios version do you have?

I've got Asus BIOS 0506

I followed the steps that were listed here:
http://quaggaspace.org/a8nvm/

"# gunzip dsdt.hex.gz
# cp dsdt.hex /usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi/
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig
Device Drivers ---> Generic Driver Options ---> [ ] Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware (Unchecked)
Right below it: [ ] Prevent firmware from being built (Unchecked)
Power management options ---> ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support ---> [*] Include Custom DSDT (Checked)
Right below it: (dsdt.hex) Custom DSDT Table file to include"

If I didn't perform the compile and install steps then, the author didn
t document the whole process - NOT HELPFUL! Can someone point me to a website that actually TELLS how to perform the necessary compile steps?

Eric

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KnoppMyth R5.5, Asus A8N-VM CSM (nvidia 6150 onboard video), AMD Athlon 64 dual-core 4200+, two 1GB sticks DDR 400, HD-3000 HDTV card, PVR-150 card, Iguanaworks RS-232 IR receiver/transmitter, Pioneer DVR-110 DVD burner